Walter Crane
Visual Artist
1845 – 1915
Who was Walter Crane?
Walter Crane was an English artist and book illustrator. He is considered to be the most influential, and among the most prolific, children’s book creator of his generation and, along with Randolph Caldecott and Kate Greenaway, one of the strongest contributors to the child's nursery motif that the genre of English children's illustrated literature would exhibit in its developmental stages in the latter 19th century. His work featured some of the more colourful and detailed beginnings of the child-in-the-garden motifs that would characterize many nursery rhymes and children's stories for decades to come. He was part of the Arts and Crafts movement and produced an array of paintings, illustrations, children's books, ceramic tiles and other decorative arts.
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- Born
- Aug 15, 1845
Liverpool - Siblings
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- Liverpool
- Died
- Mar 14, 1915
Horsham - Resting place
- Golders Green Crematorium
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on July 23, 2013
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